Re: rename the ksoftirqd kernel thread.

Martin Hicks (mort@wildopensource.com)
Fri, 16 May 2003 08:41:03 -0400


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On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 11:51:21PM +0200, J.A. Magallon wrote:
>=20
> Standard Linux 2.4 only supports 32 CPUS (include/linux/threads.h).
> Wouldn't be useful to format it as %0.2d ?
> Even in -aa, that supports 64 in 64-bits arches, it would be enough and
> you get rid of the jump from _CPU9 to _CPU10.

I agree that currently there is only support for sizeof(long) CPUS.
Including this small fix will make the diff to run > 64 CPUS smaller=20
and will increase consistency between 2.4 and 2.5.=20

There are machines out there that are running 128 processors on 2.4

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